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Totally rad.

fixed for 80's slang and geeky bike double entendre.

The Mets?

Great pics.

Kudos. :bday:

For Fathers Day...
Wife and I drove from SoCal (San Clemente) to Frisco, CO the exit to Breckenridge ~12 hours.
Got up saw son race a hill climb in Georgetown, CO. It was pretty well attended. Our first Hill Climb event.
Drank some beer - responsible amount.
Drove home.

I sort of was. Quit smoking in March of '82, rode my first century by June that year. Took up racing in '84 and became a Cat 3 in the Spring of '85 and a Cat 2 in the Fall of '86. Got picked up by a regional Cat 1,2 team in the Spring of '87 with a full sponsorship.

The only problem was that I was over-raced and injured multiple times. I would usually race Masters in the AM and Pro, 1, 2 in the PM. By the end of '89, I was racing 50 races a year and the broken bones and muscle injuries started taking their toll.

After I had broken my right scapula for the second time (already had broken left scapula and right collarbone and scapula earlier), my orthopedist begged me to stop racing. He said that the day would come when I would never sleep more than an hour or two at a time without having to turn over. By age 50, he was right and it's been that way ever since.

By '91, I had tendonitis of the hamstrings and tendinosis of the left quad head and was basically washed up. I still suffer from both today if I ride too much. My knee doctor told me the tendinosis in my left quad head would probably never heal till I gave up cycling. :(

Anyway, I retired from racing at the end of '91. My last race was a 6th in the state criterium championships.

What have you done????!!!!

http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...319BB4B0B1.jpg

:)

Bad ass.

:)

Later that year, I crashed and shattered the back of the helmet and got a concussion. Woke up in the hospital and lost memory of the whole day.

The helmet was asked for by the USCF and Giro for lab analysis because the helmets were being investigated by the USCF at the time. However, my main sponsor confiscated the helmet for legal reasons and I have no idea whatever happened to it after that.

So... how'd he do?

:thumb:

Are they playing nice?

Mostly. Doglet by nature is very sweet but at times gets sick of/exasperated with Nudge (aka puppy) (not her real name) at times. Doglet has recently discovered pretend-viscousness works so we are going through a phase in which there's lots of growling and dominating with no one actually getting hurt.

But Doglet does find Nudge fun at other times.

Nudge is a really good puppy. Pretty calm and just wants so badly to be good. She is doing really well.

Fine, not as well as hoped. His Strava segment title was "nope".
He got 5th. Leroy, the hill climb NC and KOM holder got 3rd. The UCI pro - 12th.
In KOM world he sits 12/1300. https://www.strava.com/segments/15192154

This was our first ever hill climb race. It is quite different than a TT. There is the whole pack thing. At a few points the 2 of the top 3 were somewhat off the back and dieseled back up. Some sections they were slow, some there were attacks. I should have asked for a ride in the lead truck.

This was good. Weather was great. Purpose was to say hello, try out the car, continue training/endurance for U23 in July, try out the bike setup (going to put a smaller ring on) and see if there was anything about altitude going on. At 12,000' none of these riders were having any issues I could tell. This was a 328 mile week for him (EDIT - highest ever miles/week period) and he's carrying some weight, as I mentioned pre-race, so all-in-all it was a very good time.

These are fun:
http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/...ND5v0zA-R1QsPg

A couple of cuties. :thumb:

Dat VAM tho. :thumb:

Guiltyface.

Did the hamstring tendonitis feel like saddle pain near the sit bone?

I did have higher VAM (1,428.9) hopes - #3 https://www.strava.com/segments/273807

No, my tendonitis is the lower hamstring. At the time, the sports doctor said it was caused by a quad/hamstring imbalance, in other words, over-developed quads and weak hamstrings.

Dang. You might as well have taken up boxing or football.

So which is which in that picture?

Doglet is in the foreground, aggrieved because Nudge stole her ball. Ball & thief are in the background.

[raises hand]